How are moving subjects handled in GigaPan panoramas?

Moving subjects in any multi-image panorama can cause “ghosting” because the scene changes between frames. Based on the community answers, GigaPan does not have a special magic solution for this: movement is typically handled either by overlap-based stitching plus software decisions about which areas to keep, or by manual masking/retouching afterward.

One answer says unwanted movement and ghosts are manually masked out shot by shot. Another notes that panorama software can use overlapping frames to identify similar areas and reject changing elements, similar to image-stacking features in Photoshop, though they weren’t certain that GigaPan uses the exact same method.

In practice, GigaPan Stitcher is described as relatively simple and best with well-behaved images; its strength is handling very large numbers of photos. So for scenes with lots of motion, expect some artifacts and be prepared for manual cleanup if the automatic stitch isn’t perfect.